An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding

ISBN-13: 9780198250609 / Angielski / Twarda / 2001 / 456 str.

David Hume; Tom L. Beauchamp

Opis

This is the first new scholarly edition this century of one of the greatest works in the history of philosophy, David Hume's Enquiry concerning Human Understanding. It is the third volume of the Clarendon Hume Edition, which will be the definitive edition for the foreseeable future. In this work Hume gives an elegant and accessible presentation of strikingly original and challenging views. The distinguished Hume scholar Tom Beauchamp presents an authoritative text accompanied by an introduction, annotation, a glossary, biographical sketches, bibliographies, and indexes.

Recenzje

Tom Beauchamp has produced two excellent editions, which will remain the standard editions of both Enquiries for years to come. An enormous amount of research has gone into this edition. . . Tom Beauchamp [has given] thirty years of devotion to the writings of Hume brought to . . . a splendid conclusion, . . . Beauchamp has attended to "the extreme Accuracy of Style" that Hume demanded and has produced reliable texts of the two enquires, edited to the highest standards.

O autorze

Tom L. Beauchamp is Professor of Philosophy and Senior Research Scholar at Georgetown University Washington DC. He is one of the General Editors of the Clarendon Edition of the Works of David Hume.